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Ecuador’s government shuts down indigenous rights organization over oil battle

Jeremy Hance 10 Dec 2013

Gold mine near controversial Belo Monte dam suspended

Mongabay.com 22 Nov 2013

Palm oil workers stage massive protest at sustainability meeting in Indonesia

Diana Parker 19 Nov 2013

Prize exploring the next big idea in rainforest conservation announced

Mongabay.com 16 Nov 2013

Murum dam blockaders may be suffering human rights violations warns NGOs

Jeremy Hance 12 Nov 2013

Redeeming REDD: a conversation with Michael Brown

Nabiha Megateli-das 11 Nov 2013

Palm oil companies ignoring community rights, new study shows

Diana Parker 7 Nov 2013

‘Sustainable’ tropical timber trade a misnomer, says group

Mongabay.com 24 Oct 2013

Tapirs, drug-trafficking, and eco-police: practicing conservation amidst chaos in Nicaragua

Jeremy Hance 10 Oct 2013

Tanzania should implement shoot-to-kill policy for poachers, says government minister

David Smith 9 Oct 2013

Investors risk billions by overlooking potential land conflicts, study shows

Diana Parker 24 Sep 2013

Indigenous people of Honduras granted one million hectares of rainforest

Jeremy Hance 12 Sep 2013

Japanese firms buying illegal timber from Malaysia’s endangered rainforests

Diana Parker 10 Sep 2013

Indonesian group vows to map 30 million hectares of customary forest in 7 years

Diana Parker 28 Aug 2013

Isolated Amazonian tribe makes another appearance in Peru (video)

Jeremy Hance 26 Aug 2013

Yasuni could still be spared oil drilling

Jeremy Hance 26 Aug 2013

UN REDD program failing to build capacity for indigenous people in Panama

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Aug 2013

Rare animal species and Buddhist monks in danger of losing their home to cement quarry

Tanya Dimitrova 22 Jul 2013

Weak laws governing Malaysia’s indigenous people complicate conservation efforts

Dr Liz Kimbrough 22 Jul 2013

Labor abuse widespread in Indonesia’s palm oil industry, finds investigation

Mongabay.com 19 Jul 2013

Brazil’s military takes on illegal loggers to protect nearly-extinct tribe

Jeremy Hance 18 Jul 2013

Billions lost to corruption in Indonesia’s forest sector, says report

Diana Parker 17 Jul 2013

Featured video: Indonesian community uses mapping to fight palm oil takeover

Jeremy Hance 15 Jul 2013

Activists raise alarm over park that will dispossess Borneo tribe of land

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Jul 2013

Influential British editor banned from Sarawak

Jeremy Hance 3 Jul 2013

Activists, indigenous people plan healing walk in ‘sick’ tar sands landscape

Stephen Leahy 1 Jul 2013

Indonesia’s president says he will work to register and recognize customary forests

Diana Parker 28 Jun 2013

Why Panama’s indigenous pulled out of the UN’s REDD program

Mongabay.com 25 Jun 2013

Over 30 tons of explosives to be detonated in Manu National Park buffer zone

David Hill 24 Jun 2013

Indonesia denies it has any indigenous peoples

Frances Yan-man-shing 13 Jun 2013

Local economy ruined by pesticide pollution in the Caribbean

Martine Valo 29 May 2013

Indigenous sacred sites now qualify as protected areas in Colombia

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 May 2013

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